#286 portable format for persistent data

[Karl-Heinz]

tcowling wrote:

We use a mix of Windows2000, Solaris, and Linux
environments here at Dotcastand have found great
compatibility between WinCVS, and gCVS. The only
issuethat I've found so far is that the Solaris and
Linux versions write the.gcvsrc file in Big
Endian/Little Endian formats. Since each of our
homedirectories resides on a server that is automounted
for both Linux andSolaris machines, every time we
switch between Linux and Solaris, a versionerror
message is displayed on the console. It would be
really great ifPersistent.cpp could be updated to use a
format that is portable betweenplatforms.Cheers!Tom

[Jens Miltner]

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How about having an "Export Settings" command that exports the
settings in some format that all of the cvsgui implementations can
import again? That way, users could even share their settings
between gCvs, Windows & MacCvs, even though each of them
stores the settings in a different way...